I'm sorry, let me a pedant librarian:
* the topic of Access to research has been mainly referred to with the term Open Access. You will find tons of material with that name.
* we have a Wikimedian in Residence for Open Access, Daniel Mietchen.
* *Open Access and the divide between “mainstream” and “peripheral” science* is a great essay by Guédon (underlines some social drawbacks of the current publishing system), one of the best I read. You can find it here: http://eprints.rclis.org/12156
* *Reinventing discovery* is a great 2011 book from Michael Nielsen, it speaks about Open Access and also crowdsourcing in escience. Very interesting.
* the folks at archiveteam set up this: http://aaronsw.archiveteam.org/ It is not properly legal, read it all.
* if you want to publish in/read a OA journal, find it here: http://www.doaj.org
As for us, the Wikimedia movement, we can definetely do more. It is just a matter of tactics, but we want this, so make it happen.
Aubrey
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Etienne Beaule betienne@bellaliant.netwrote:
There is also Access2Research < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Access2Research > about free research articles in the Us.
On 2013-01-14 21:06, "Everton Zanella Alvarenga" < ezalvarenga@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Don't worry, Richard, this news is now hot, but the situation din't progress that much from what it could be.
We have the Busapest Open Access Initiative since 2002 http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/openaccess/read. We can find videos of professor Jean-Claude Guédon, one of the person who wrote this initiative one decade ago, explaining in details the logics behind all this.
The publish (on closed journals) or perish still reigns in the academia, so it is very important we explain the importance of knowledge to be free for every single person we meet. Still a lot to do.
Tom
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Good lord, so it did. My apologies! It was making the rounds tonight
and my
excitement got the better of me.
This is why I don't work in communications!
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